Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The state or quality of being clean. Freedom from dirt, filth, or foreign or offensive matter; neatness.
- n. Freedom from ceremonial pollution.
- n. Exactness; purity; justness; correctness: used of language or style.
- n. Moral purity; innocence; freedom from anything dishonorable, immoral, or sinful.
Wiktionary
- n. Moral purity; innocence.
- n. The state of being physically clean and free of contamination or dirt; cleanliness.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The state or quality of being clean.
- n. Purity of life or language; freedom from licentious courses.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the state of being clean; without dirt or other impurities
- n. without moral defects
Examples
“She then added a comic by Sherif Arafa, an Egyptian writer, about how the whole Cairo cleanness is going to end as soon as Obama takes off his plan:”
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“Last night is passed over, like an excessively bad dream; and I am sitting here in cleanness and quiet, announcing my safety so far.”
“_Our_ brightness and happiness air the brightness and happiness of faith; our cleanness is the cleanness of religious scruples.”
“But wit you well there shall none attain it but by cleanness, that is pure confession.”
“Thom Hartman thinks that Romney could bring a lot to the McCain ticket: money and "cleanness".”
“This suffices for the Replies to the Objections: for the first two arguments refer to the first kind of cleanness; while the third refers to the perfect vision of God.”
“Morison, was making his task an extremely difficult one -- it was that quality of innate goodness and cleanness which is a good girl's stoutest bulwark and protection -- an impregnable barrier that only degeneracy has the effrontery to assail.”
“In this respect there is required a certain ceremonial "cleanness" of attire, the essential feature of which, in the economic respect, is that the garments worn on these occasions should carry as little suggestion as may be of any industrial occupation or of any habitual addiction to such employments as are of material use.”
The theory of the leisure class; an economic study of institutions
“He was no longer a poor lad with the world before him to whom the Lord of Harby was little less than the viceregent of God; he was a free man, he was a rich man, he had multiplied existences, had drunk of the wine of life from many casks and yet maintained through all a kind of cleanness of palate, ready for any vintage yet unbroached, be it white or red.”
“The. ru administrators care about the "cleanness" of the domain, she added.”
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